Tomorrow begins a new season of one of my favorite pastimes: watching Notre Dame football. I’ve been doing it for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n
When you’re a kid you don’t realize that the players are not that much older than you are. You’re 12 and they’re 18? That’s a blink of an eye.<\/p>\n
Now I’m a little more than a blink older than the players.<\/p>\n
Actually, the players could be my kids. They\u00a0are<\/em> in fact closer to my son’s age than to mine.<\/p>\n And this year, as goes a theme of sports watching for me recently, the\u00a0coach<\/em> is younger than I am too.<\/p>\n Ouch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tomorrow begins a new season of one of my favorite pastimes: watching Notre Dame football. I’ve been doing it for more than 30 years. When you’re a kid you don’t realize that the players are not that much older than … Continue reading